I’ve written a couple of scripts for making timelapses in Linux. It’s fairly simple stuff;

Create a screenshot every 15th second by running the following script in a terminal;

#!/bin/bash

# Takes a screenshot of my second monitor every 15 seconds
# Only have one monitor? Drop the -crop part ...

mkdir ~/img

while [ 1 ]; do
# Uncomment the line below if you only want timelapse of your second monitor, and both monitors are 1680x1050 big.
# import -window root -crop 1680x1050+1680+0 ~/img/LD21-$(date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S).jpg

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